Re: SOLVELD [cross] building gdb for the 64bit Hurd?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

janneke@gnu.org, le ven. 15 nov. 2024 11:14:39 +0100, a ecrit:
> As a corollary, using this GDB I found that the statically built tar
> segfaults on the vtrying to issue the
> 
>    tar: Option --mtime: Treating date '@1' as 1970-01-01 01:00:01
> 
> warning:
> 
>           WARN ((0, 0, _("Option %s: Treating date '%s' as %s"),
>                  p->option, p->date, treated_as));
> 
> as it looks like, on the
> 274       vfprintf (stderr, message, args);
> 
> call.  I guess I'll try replacing that with a simple fprintf for the
> 64bit Hurd,

That's however very worth investigating because something fishy is
at hand here, and better fix it here where it should be easy to
investigate, rather than in other places where it'd be way more tricky.

For a start, are p->option, p->date, and treated_as actually valid
strings?

Samuel